Charlie Callas

Death On January 27, 2011, Callas died of natural causes, in his home in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was survived by his sons, Mark and Larry. His wife, Evelyn, had died six months earlier at the age of 80.

Tony Belmont, executive director of the National Comedy Hall of Fame in St. Petersburg, Florida, said of Callas upon his death: "There were two things he did that made his career. He could think very fast on his feet, and he had an unbelievable number of sounds that he made with his voice. He would tell a joke about two guys hunting. If you or I told it, the joke wasn't so funny. But Charlie made it hysterical by sticking in these sounds; so you would hear the gun cocking, the duck flying overhead, the explosion of the shotgun, and then the duck falling and screaming all the way to the ground."

Filmography The Monkees (1966 TV Series) Season 1, Episode 6: “Success Story” - Ice Cream Man The Big Mouth (1967) — Rex The Wacky Weeki Wachee and Silver Springs Singing and Comedy Thing! (1973 TV Special) — Himself Switch (1975–1978, TV Series) — Malcolm Argos Silent Movie (1976) — Blind Man Pete's Dragon (1977) — Elliott the Dragon (voice) High Anxiety (1977) — Cocker Spaniel The Carpenters...Space Encounters (1978) — Himself Legends of the Superheroes (1979, TV Series) — Sinestro History of the World, Part I (1981) — Soothsayer - The Roman Empire Rooster (1982, TV Movie) — Francis A. Melville Hysterical (1983) — Count Dracula Gallavants (1984) — Azor (voice) The Dom DeLuise Show (1987, TV Series) — Charlie Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) — Himself Silk Stalkings (1993, TV Series) — El Cid Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) — Man in Straitjacket Vampire Vixens from Venus (1995) — Bartender Crooks (2002) — Sol solzberg Horrorween (2010) — Himself (final film role)